(84 mins.) Released 1935-05-25
Director: Lloyd Bacon
Stars: Dolores del Rio, Pat O'Brien, Leo Carrillo, Edward Everett Horton
comedy, musical, romance
originally posted 26 Oct 2017 23:03
I cannot imagine why I gave this 7 before. We have NO charismatic stars here. Dolores Del Rio is nice, but not enough to carry a movie for me, at least not if Pat O'Brien is all she gets to play off. EE Horton needs a woman to run away from. And none of the dance ensembles scream that BB was at hand. While others imitate his style, here he imitates theirs. The Dancing DeMarcos (duo) are good at what they do, but they are so strictly ballroom that I don't like them. Plus, the husband, who looks like Irving Berlin, always manages to face the camera. The songs are ok, with The Lady in Red introduced here.
Warner Bros, dir. Bacon [+BB]; 6
